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http://i.imgur.com/ky9r9xU.jpgDr. Bones and Nurse Amy are happy to announce the publication of the Second Edition of The Survival Medicine Handbook! “The Survival Medicine Handbook: When Medical Help is NOT on the Way” is the second edition of the Amazon bestseller “The Doom and Bloom Survival Medicine Handbook”.Our second edition, like the first, assumes that no doctors or hospitals are available to you due to a short-term or long-term disaster scenario, and that YOU are now the end of the line when it comes to your family’s health.The Survival Medicine Handbook™ is a guide for those who want to be medically prepared for any disaster where help is NOT on the way. The expanded and revised second edition of the 3 category Amazon bestseller (Survival Skills, Disaster Relief, Safety/First Aid) is geared to enable the non-medical professional to deal with all the likely issues they will encounter in catastrophic scenarios.In circumstances where medical personnel are overwhelmed and access to modern technology is limited or non-existent, The Survival Medicine Handbook™ is the essential reference book for every library. Written in plain English, you’ll find step-by-step instructions on how to identify and treat over 100 different medical issues.The second edition also covers alternative remedies for almost every possible medical condition in situations where modern healthcare is inaccessible. Why not use ALL the tools in the woodshed?Here’s just some of the topics covered:    · MEDICAL PREPAREDNESS    BECOMING A MEDICAL RESOURCE    · THE EFFECTIVE SURVIVAL MEDIC    · FACTORS TO CONSIDER WHEN PREPARING    · LIKELY MEDICAL ISSUES YOU WILL FACE    · MEDICAL SKILLS YOU WILL WANT TO LEARN    · MEDICAL SUPPLIES    NATURAL REMEDIES    · ESSENTIAL OILS    · THE MEDICINAL GARDEN    · THE PHYSICAL EXAM    · THE MASS CASUALTY INCIDENT    · PATIENT TRANSPORT    · HYGIENE-RELATED MEDICAL ISSUES    · LICE, TICKS, AND WORMS    · DENTAL ISSUES    · RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS    · FOOD AND WATER-BORNE ILLNESS    · DIARRHEAL DISEASE/DEHYDRATION    · DEALING WITH SEWAGE ISSUES    · FOOD POISONING    · APPENDICITIS/ABDOMINAL PAIN    · URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS    · HEPATITIS    · PELVIC AND VAGINAL INFECTIONS    · WOUND INFECTIONS    · ABSCESSES    · TETANUS    · MOSQUITO BORNE ILLNESS    · FUNGAL INFECTIONS    · HYPERTHERMIA (HEAT STROKE)    · HYPOTHERMIA    · ALTITUDE SICKNESS    · WILDFIRE PREPAREDNESS    · TORNADO PREPAREDNESS    · HURRICANE PREPAREDNESS    · EARTHQUAKE PREPAREDNESS    · ALLERGIC REACTIONS    · ASTHMA    · POISON IVY, OAK, AND SUMAC    · RADIATION SICKNESS    · BIOLOGICAL WARFARE    · MINOR WOUNDS    · MAJOR AND HEMORRHAGIC WOUNDS    · SOFT TISSUE WOUND CARE    · WOUND CLOSURE/OPEN WOUNDS    · LOCAL ANESTHESIA AND NERVE BLOCKS    · HOW TO SUTURE/STAPLE SKIN    · BLISTERS, SPLINTERS, AND FISHHOOKS    · NAIL BED INJURIES    · BURN INJURIES    · ANIMAL BITES    · SNAKE BITES    · INSECT BITES AND STINGS    · HEAD INJURIES    · SPRAINS AND STRAINS    · DISLOCATIONS    · FRACTURES    · AMPUTATION    · THYROID DISEASE    · DIABETES    · HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE    · HEART DISEASE AND CHEST PAIN    · ULCER AND ACID REFLUX DISEASE    · SEIZURE DISORDERS    · JOINT DISEASE    · KIDNEY AND GALL BLADDER STONES    · SKIN CONDITIONS    · VARICOSE VEINS    · CPR    · HEADACHE    · EYE PROBLEMS    · NOSEBLEED    · EARACHE    · HEMORRHOIDS    · BIRTH CONTROL,    PREGNANCY, AND DELIVERY    · ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION    · SLEEP DEPRIVATION    · ESSENTIAL OVER THE COUNTER DRUGS    · A PRIMER ON PAIN MEDICATIONS    · NATURAL PAIN RELIEF    · STOCKPILING MEDICATIONS    HOW TO GAIN ACCESS TO AND USE VARIOUS ANTIBIOTICS, ANTI-FUNGALS AND ANTI-VIRAL DRUGS    · EXPIRATION DATESWhen the buck stops with YOU, would you be ready to pick up the flag and deal with medical issues in grid-down situations? The Survival Medicine Handbook’s second edition is the essential medical reference for your survival library.Stay healthy,Dr. Bones and Nurse AmyAbout Dr BonesJoseph Alton, M.D. is a medical doctor and Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology. He writes about medical preparedness for times of trouble, and is, along with his wife Amy Alton, a nurse-midwife, the co-author of The Survival Medicine Handbook, and well as a contributor to Survivalist, Backwoods Home, Survival Quarterly, and other magazines related to survival and homesteading. Together they host the Doom and Bloom(tm) Hour radio show, syndicated on the Preparedness Radio Network, Prepper Broadcasting Network, Prepper Reality Network, and the USA Emergency Broadcasting Network as Dr. Bones and Nurse Amy. Dr. and Ms. Alton use pseudonyms so that they can be free to give medical strategies for collapse situations that sometimes are contrary to the conventional medical wisdom.